RE: Punishment for Mortal Sin

[nearflip]

How are we punished for Mortal Sin? For example, if we view pornography/masturbation… are we punished right away? Say within 24 hours or do we face punishment when we die or both?

 Also, if we choose not to engage in sin or avoid it are we rewarded now or after death?

 I have always thought we are punished with misfortune or illness immeadiately after committing the act and likewise rewarded similarily. However, I am not sure if this is true-

Thanks

 

[kage_ar]

From the Catechism:

scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1051.htm

**1051 **Every man receives his eternal recompense in his immortal soul from the moment of his death in a particular judgment by Christ, the judge of the living and the dead.

 

[The_Otaku]

How are we punished for Mortal Sin? For example, if we view pornography/masturbation… are we punished right away? Say within 24 hours or do we face punishment when we die or both?

 Also, if we choose not to engage in sin or avoid it are we rewarded now or after death?

 I have always thought we are punished with misfortune or illness immeadiately after committing the act and likewise rewarded similarily. However, I am not sure if this is true-

Thanks

I think it’s a bit of both. The bulk of your punishment is after death, as is the bulk of the reward, but God does give you consolations and ‘benefits’ as it were in this lifetime, namely peace of heart, mind, and soul, and often times answers to your prayers. As far as for sin in this temporal world, usually the punishment is a guilty conscience, and we know how that can eat at us. It’s just a taste of what you’ll get after this life when when you have to bare the brunt of your collective wickedness over the years.

So to answer your question, I think it’s both. We do get a sampling of the eternal joy or horror here, but it will never compare, obviously.

 

[Leopard]

RE: Punishment for Mortal Sin

As a former junior-high Religious Education catechist, I can confirm that RE is indeed a punishment for at least venial, if not mortal sin. Many catechists have shaved years off their personal purgatories by teaching RE.

 

[Pug]

Some of the effects of mortal sin may indeed happen right away, like loss of charity within our souls, loss of reputation, becoming more likely to sin that way again in the future, loss of integrity, general darkening of our understanding/intellect, having stupid images stuck in our mind that are difficult to eradicate, loss of communion with God and hence the associated graces (until you repent), perhaps becoming addicted, perhaps losing your job (someone was fired at my work for looking at porn on the internet), etc. There are sometimes punishments that are more overt. King David in the bible was punished for adultery and murder by the death of his son. The prophet Nathan told him this was so. That didn’t happen right away, but a while after the murder.

Remember, punishments that happen now, in this life, can be a tool in the hands of God to lead us back to him, to reform our lives. If we remain in mortal sin until we die, we will be punished for it when we die, in hell.

Rewards/consequences for doing well also may happen in this life, but often happen in the next.

 

[Seatuck]

Loss of grace, loss of friendship with God are the immediate results if the conditions for mortal sin are met.

The only grace we can recieve after falling out of grace is the call to repent and seek union with God ( through confession /absolution)

 

[fix]

How are we punished for Mortal Sin? For example, if we view pornography/masturbation… are we punished right away? Say within 24 hours or do we face punishment when we die or both?

 Also, if we choose not to engage in sin or avoid it are we rewarded now or after death?

I have always thought we are punished with misfortune or illness immeadiately after committing the act and likewise rewarded similarily. However, I am not sure if this is true-

Thanks

Part of the punishment is the illicit thrill we get when we act badly. That keeps us going back to sin again and draws us further from conversion.

 

[AndyF]

nearflip:

We can be punished at differing times here in this world and in the next. A mortal sin and the compounding sins of it’s consequence that carries it’s full weight of guilt will receive the maximum punishment. But temporal punishments may lessen the extreme.

The compounding goes something like this:

Say two men “marry”. This is the first sin.

Now that they are comfortable in that state, satan may back off because he has them where he wants them. He may allow for a good life here with minimal evil disturbance. After all he doesn’t want them contemplating a miserable life and considering confession and a change of life.

They are tempted to raise children. Weakened by the state they are in, the reasoning becomes cloudy, so raising children must be OK. (discernment skills wanting.)

They adopt a boy. The boy sees two men in embrace. Later homosexuality is accepted has a norm, so the boy now adult chooses another man. He was also restricted from a good religious upbringing, because if he were, he would discover his providers are living in sin.

So the adults now are culpable for the effect of the boy learning an evil additional to the first sin they are in.

It goes on. The son raises adopted children also, and they also learn that HS is OK.

The adults receive a degree of culpability in this also. So the tally is now three sins.

The son will receive his judgement on the degree of how he made use of his conscience.

And so it goes.

Punishments are up to the Lord. He may grant they be partially suffered in this world as temporal punishments diminishing purgatorial punishment, or he may find it appropriate that the full burden of the sin be carried to final justice.

Awards for good deeds are given also in this world as temporal graces.

Andy